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Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis died of an overdose, authorities are now able to tell the public in Arizona. She was Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis' wife and was discovered unresponsive by their 14-year old daughter in their home earlier this year in their Fountain Hills Home.

She would later be pronounced dead at the scene. The Arizona Republic reported in July that Thomas Lawless, Schoeneweis' lawyer, had asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on July 9 to seal the death records, arguing that Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis' May 20 death "caused massive publicity that distressed Scott and traumatized their four children - ages 14, 7, 5 and 2."


Commissioner Barbara Hamner has now refused. “The court recognizes the family’s desire for privacy, and the court is sympathetic to those concerns,” Hamner wrote.

Still, Tuesday’s ruling read, in part, “an investigation of Ms. Schoeneweis’ death by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office revealed evidence that Ms. Schoeneweis had died of an overdose of cocaine and lidocaine, and that her use of cocaine may have caused harm to another person.”